"most watched premieres in the network's history, with ratings of 1.56 million viewers and 1.84 million viewers respectively. Father Christmas (film series) The Father Christmas film series is an American/Canadian trilogy, starring Erin Krakow and Niall Matter, based on the novels of Robin Jones Gunn. The films were originally broadcast in the USA on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, as part of the channels' ""Miracles of Christmas"" seasonal programming. The films follow the story of Miranda Chester (Krakow), as she visits the town of Carlton Heath, Vermont, in search of the truth about her parentage. Whilst there she meets, and falls"
"Christmas season). Another theme plays on the ""big city-small town"" dynamic, whereby a lead character has either left a small hometown for the big city (and has had to return), or a big city person has to go to a small town, in either case deciding that the small town is where they should remain. The settings are usually in the northern United States, or in a mountain area (such as Colorado), where snow (and the ensuing ""White Christmas"") are used as a backdrop for the film (though the films themselves are often filmed in British Columbia due to favorable"
"end of 2014. White Christmas (film) White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in VistaVision and Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, ""White Christmas"", introduced by Crosby in the film ""Holiday Inn"". Produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is notable for being the first to be released in VistaVision, a widescreen process developed by Paramount that entailed using twice the surface area of standard 35mm film; this large-area negative was used to"
"White Christmas (film) White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in VistaVision and Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, ""White Christmas"", introduced by Crosby in the film ""Holiday Inn"". Produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the film is notable for being the first to be released in VistaVision, a widescreen process developed by Paramount that entailed using twice the surface area of standard 35mm film; this large-area negative was used to yield finer-grained standard-sized"
"Christmas in Connecticut Christmas in Connecticut is a 1945 American Christmas romantic comedy film about an unmarried city newspaper writer who pretends to be a farm wife and mother and then falls in love with one of her fans. The film was directed by Peter Godfrey, and stars Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, and Sydney Greenstreet. Elizabeth Lane is a single New Yorker, occupied as a food writer. Her articles about her fictitious Connecticut farm, husband, and baby are admired by housewives across the country. Her publisher, Alexander Yardley, is unaware of the charade and insists that Elizabeth host a Christmas"
"of northern New England, along with higher elevations of the Rockies. Some of the least likely white Christmases that have happened include the 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm, which brought the first white Christmas in 50 years to New Orleans. The 2004 storm also brought the first measurable snow of any kind since 1895 to Brownsville, Texas, and its twin city of Matamoros, Mexico. The Florida winter storm of 1989 also occurred immediately before Christmas causing a white Christmas for cities like Pensacola and Jacksonville. The same storm buried Wilmington, North Carolina and the rest of southeastern North Carolina under of"
"greatest movie list, number 20 on its revised 2007 greatest movie list, and placing number one on its list of the most inspirational American films of all time. Capra revealed that this was his personal favorite among the films he directed, and that he screened it for his family every Christmas season. On Christmas Eve 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, George Bailey contemplates suicide. Prayers for him reach Heaven, where Clarence Odbody, Angel 2nd Class, is assigned to save George, in return for which he will earn his angel wings. To prepare him for his mission, Clarence is shown"
"he is losing his sight he does not wish to tell Heidi, but he makes her live with her relatives, Cousins Tobias and Martha to attend school in a large city. There Heidi meets the troubled Elizabeth Wyler who is fascinated by Heidi and her rural life. Through his secretary Mady, Heidi joins Elizabeth and her busy widowed father Dan Wyler for a Christmas in New York City. With the low budget of the television film precluding having the film shot in Switzerland or New York City, the crew shot Swiss sequences in Snowmass, Colorado with imitation red poppies and"
"some of the warmest weather on record, with such places as Quebec City experiencing their first green Christmas in recorded history. In 2008, Canada experienced the first nationwide white Christmas in 37 years, as a series of pre-Christmas storms hit the nation, including the normally rainy BC Pacific coast. In the United States, there is often—but not always—snow on the ground at Christmas in the northern states, except in the Pacific Northwest, with Alaska the most likely to see snow on the ground at Christmas. In the contiguous United States, the highest probabilities are in the Upper Midwest and parts"
"One Christmas (film) One Christmas is a 1994 American made-for-television drama film starring Katharine Hepburn (in her final television role), Henry Winkler and Swoosie Kurtz. It is based on the 1983 short story ""One Christmas"" by Truman Capote about a young boy who reluctantly leaves his Alabama home to spend Christmas with his estranged father in New Orleans. The film originally premiered on NBC on December 19, 1994. In 1930, eight-year-old Buddy lives an idyllic existence in rural Alabama with his cousin Sook. But all that is about to change when he is sent to New Orleans to spend Christmas"
"here in New England"" in 1856. ""The old puritan feeling prevents it from being a cheerful, hearty holiday; though every year makes it more so."" In Reading, Pennsylvania, a newspaper remarked in 1861, ""Even our presbyterian friends who have hitherto steadfastly ignored Christmas—threw open their church doors and assembled in force to celebrate the anniversary of the Savior's birth."" The First Congregational Church of Rockford, Illinois, ""although of genuine Puritan stock"", was 'preparing for a grand Christmas jubilee', a news correspondent reported in 1864. By 1860, fourteen states including several from New England had adopted Christmas as a legal holiday."
"White Christmas (musical) White Christmas is a musical based on the Paramount Pictures 1954 film of the same name. The book is by David Ives and Paul Blake, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. The original St. Louis production starred Lara Teeter, Karen Mason, Lauren Kennedy, and Lee Roy Reams, and the 2004 San Francisco production starred Brian D'Arcy James, Anastasia Barzee, Meredith Patterson, and Jeffry Denman. The musical, titled ""Irving Berlin's White Christmas"", premiered in St. Louis in 2000 at The Muny, after which it opened in San Francisco in 2004. It has since played in various venues"
"to Larchmont, New York for any holidays since his mother died and his father remarried shortly after. A few days before Christmas Eve, his father offers to give him his vintage 1957 Porsche 356 if he is home by 6:00 p.m., Christmas Eve for Christmas dinner. Initially, Jake had traded in his airline ticket to New York City for two tickets to Cabo San Lucas to take his girlfriend, Allie Henderson (Jessica Biel), who is also from New York, but she declines. Jake reconsiders following the deal with his father and trades the tickets back in for New York and"
"visited the train during its tour, while millions more stood trackside to see it go by. The tour began in Wilmington, Delaware, and headed northeast to New England, west through Pennsylvania, Ohio to Michigan, then around Lake Michigan to Illinois and Wisconsin. From the Midwest, the tour continued westward, zigzagging across the plains to Utah and then up to the Pacific Northwest. From Seattle, Washington, the tour then traveled south along the Pacific coast to southern California. The train and crew spent Christmas 1975 in Pomona, California, decorating the locomotive with a large profile of Santa Claus on the front"
"Christmas Day 1957 in Charlotte, North Carolina, before going into general release in January. In his review in ""The New York Times"", Bosley Crowther said the film ""was badly, cheaply written by George Zuckerman and is abominably played by a hand-picked cast. The sentiments are inflated — blown out of all proportions to the values involved. And the acting, under Douglas Sirk's direction, is elaborate and absurd."" ""Variety"" called the film ""a stumbling entry. Characters are mostly colorless, given static reading in drawn-out situations, and story line is lacking in punch."" More recent reviews, penned after a resurgence of interest"
"loss is exacerbated when the railroad company invokes eminent domain over their neighbor’s property in order to bypass the Sioux Indian reservation. It is a hard Christmas (their tree is made of pine cones because trees are hard to come by on the prairie) but their courage and spirit prevail. Production began in mid-summer 1976 with set construction at the Empire Ranch near Sonoita, Arizona. Complete buildings were fabricated for the town of ‘Wildrose,’ with the inclusion of a railroad spur and depot. Some scenes were filmed at Fox Studios in Los Angeles, California due to a lack of available"
"The Christmas Kid The Christmas Kid (also known as Joe Navidad) is a 1967 western film directed by Sidney W. Pink and distributed in America by Troma Entertainment. In a small western town in Arizona called Jaspen, a boy is born on Christmas Day. Joseph ""Joe"" Novak is born in a makeshift shelter, but his mother, Marika Novak (Alejandra Rojo) dies during childbirth. Because of the day he was born, the boy will be nicknamed Christmas Joe. Joe's father (Jack Taylor) will never forgive him for the death of his wife, which will lead Joe toward a rebellious attitude. He"
"Christmas with a Capital C Christmas with a Capital C is a 2010 American Christian drama direct-to-DVD film directed by Helmut Schleppi. The film's plot was based on a song of the same name by Christian band ""Go Fish"", whose name was inspired by one of actor Brad Stine's stand-up comedy routines. It centers on what, in recent years, has been dubbed the """"War on Christmas"""" in the United States. Christmas has always been an exceptional time of love and tradition in the small town of Trapper Falls, Alaska. Hometown of Mayor Dan Reed (Ted McGinley) looks forward to each"
"Christmas in Wonderland Christmas in Wonderland is a 2007 Canadian-American comedy film about three children who move with their father from Los Angeles to Edmonton, Alberta, where they catch a group of counterfeiters while Christmas shopping. The Saunders family has just moved from Los Angeles to Edmonton right before Christmas leaving them with no Christmas spirit with the exception of the bright eyed 6-year-old Mary (Amy and Zoe Schalgel). They go to the majestic West Edmonton Mall for Christmas shopping. The boys find out that Wayne (Patrick Swayze) had been fired from his job and Christmas might not happen this"
"capture what the 1950s were like, which might actually be entertaining to any American Girl doll owner"". An American Girl Story – Maryellen 1955: Extraordinary Christmas An American Girl Story – Maryellen 1955: Extraordinary Christmas is a 2016 family-drama film starring Alyvia Alyn Lind in the title role, along with Mary McCormack and Madison Lawlor in supporting roles. The film takes place in mid-1950s Daytona Beach, Florida, centering on Maryellen Larkin's life together with her big family, longing to stand out among her siblings and other relatives, and how she helped a number of young patients at a polio ward,"
"2004 was valued at $506 million with $143 million attributed to the nation's leading producer in 2004, Oregon. Oregon was followed in production numbers by North Carolina, Washington, and Michigan. In 2012, 24 million trees were sold at a retail value of over $1 billion. Trees are grown across the United States in varying conditions, Christmas trees are grown in all 50 U.S. states including Alaska and Hawaii. Other states produced smaller number of trees. For example, in the U.S. state of Alabama there are almost 100 Christmas tree farms which average 800 trees annually. Ninety percent of Alabama's tree"
"moves into Susie's (Johnson) old house, but he is the only one who is able to see Susie. Disney Channel stopped showing the film later in the new millennium. It was given a ""TV-G"" rating, and it was already cut for some profanity, but not all, when it primarily aired on the Disney Channel. In the fictional town of Willow Valley, Washington during the year 1955, teenager Susie Quinn prepares for her Winter Formal. She and her boyfriend, Johnny Angel, are oblivious to the fact that an inebriated motorist would soon force their car into a waterway where they subsequently"
"privileged background. Oliver Hudson was cast as Kyle Autry, the male lead and red herring after finding the script effective, as well being impressed by Morgan's remake of ""Willard"": ""The style of [that film] complemented the script, and I thought if Glen could marry the two, it would be cool, and a little different."" Andrea Martin, who had played the role of Phyllis in the 1974 film, was cast as the sorority housemother, Mrs. Mac. ""Black Christmas"" was shot on location in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Given that a great deal of the film takes place during a blackout inside"
"Indiana and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Each year, tens of thousands of Christmas cards and letters are sent to the USPS Noel Post Office during the holiday season to be stamped with a postmark reading, """"Noel, Mo. - 'The Christmas City in the Ozark Vacation Land.'"""" This practice became popular by the late 1940s when Kate Smith, a radio and television singer, began telling the ""Noel Story"" during her broadcasts. Noel is home to a Tyson Foods plant, where chicken is processed for human consumption. By 2010, between 400 and 500 Somali refugees, and 60 and 70 Sudanese refugees, out of 1,800"
"Christmas Holiday Christmas Holiday is a 1944 film noir crime film directed by Robert Siodmak starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly. Based on the 1939 novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, the film is about a woman who marries a Southern aristocrat who inherited his family's streak of violence and instability and soon drags the woman into a life of misery. After he is arrested, the woman runs away from her husband's family, changes her name, and finds work as a singer in a New Orleans dive. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Musical"
"her owners, Richard and Mary Christmas of Issaquena County, Mississippi. During that time it was typical for wealthy southern tourists to escape the yellow fever season by traveling via steamboat up the Mississippi River to northern destinations during the summer months. They took domestic slaves as servants. The Christmases traveled with their five-year-old daughter, Norma, and Winston to the Winslow House in St. Anthony, Minnesota, which was a free state. Winston had already determined to seek her freedom there and told her story to Ralph and Emily Grey, who were free black citizens. According to her deposition, she and her"
"Christmas in the City Christmas in the City is a 2013 American Christmas and holiday season film written by Barbara Kymlicka, directed by Marita Grabiak, starring Ashley Williams, Jon Prescott, and Ashanti and distributed by Lifetime Network Wendy Carroll (Ashley Williams) and her six-year-old daughter Grace (Kylie Price) live in a small town where Christmas is everywhere. She gets a foreclosure notice three weeks before Christmas on her father's candy store which she has been running for the last five years. To make some extra money in order to save the candy store, Wendy and Grace travel to the big"
"grown in all 50 U.S. states including Alaska and Hawaii. In the U.S. state of Alabama there are almost 100 Christmas tree farms which average 800 trees annually. Ninety percent of Alabama's tree farms are ""choose and cut"" type operations which allow customers to visit and cut their own live Christmas tree. It was around Christmas 1851 when a farmer in the US state of New York's Catskill Mountains, Mark Carr, began a journey with two oxen drawn sleds toward New York City with a crop of Christmas trees in tow. When he arrived in New York the first Christmas"
"meet Maggie Conway who has also just moved to Friday Harbor. Maggie leaves the city after being left at the altar by her fiance and opens up a toy store. Together, these three lost souls discover each other and the lives they always dreamed they could have. Although set in Washington state, the film was shot entirely in Nova Scotia, Canada in August 2012, in the towns of Halifax, Chester and Windsor. Christmas with Holly Christmas with Holly is a 2012 Canadian-American made-for-TV film based on the book ""Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor"" by Lisa Kleypas. It originally aired on"
"The Christmas Card The Christmas Card is a Hallmark Channel original film written by Joany Kane and directed by Stephen Bridgewater. It was filmed on location in Nevada City, California and in Park City, Utah, and was released on December 2, 2006 In the midst of war in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Master Sergeant Cody Cullen (John Newton) is given a Christmas card from a fellow soldier who had received it from his hometown, Nevada City, California. The card was sent by Faith Spelman (Alice Evans). As months pass, the card never leaves his side. Cody, who has no family, and"
"fictional Clear River, Nebraska in 1946. 10-year-old Addie Mills, a lonely girl behind her large horn-rimmed glasses, lives in a plain, ordinary house with her widowed father James and her loving grandmother. Her mother had died shortly after she was born; this builds resentment in her father, who wonders why his beloved wife had to die rather than their tiny and sickly baby (whose first name is taken from her father's middle name). His only interaction with Addie seems to be in frequent corrections of her. Since his wife's death, there has never been a Christmas tree in the Mills"
"Belmont, Ohio and in the Wheeling, West Virginia area. It premiered at the Capitol Theatre in Wheeling in December 2013, coinciding with a DVD release by Green Apple Entertainment (U.S.) and Spotlight Pictures (international). The movie made its U.S. television premiere during UPtv's ""Everything You Love about Christmas"" on November 26, 2014. A Christmas Tree Miracle A Christmas Tree Miracle (2013) is a holiday film produced by Flyover Films in association with Route 40 Films. The story centers on the George family. Bothered by the upcoming Christmas holiday, father David (Kevin Sizemore) is focused on work, mother Julie (Claudia Esposito)"
"its remailing service opportunities and, as of 2005, all U.S. mail addressed to Santa Claus is sent to Santa Claus, Indiana. In 2006, Santa Claus, Arizona, was noted as being abandoned and likely to become another lost American highway icon. In that same year, videographer Matt McCormick retraced and filmed the steps of his family road trip through Santa Claus in 1956. The resulting three-minute movie, ""Fifty Years Later"" (2006), included clips of Santa Claus in 1956 and comparison clips from the town in 2006. Presented at the 2007 Northwest Film and Video Festival, the film reveals the significant changes"